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NEVE CAMPBELL
Name: Neve Campbell.
Birth Name: Neve Adrianne Campbell. Height: 5'.5 1/2''.
Nationality: Canadian. Date: October 3, 1973 Birth Place:
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Occupation: Actress, producer. Education:
National Ballet School of Canada. Husband: Jeff Colt (actor; married on
April 3, 1995; divorced on May 8, 1998). Relationship: Matthew Lillard
(actor; 1997-1998), John Cusack (actor). Father: Gerry Campbell (high
school drama teacher). Mother: Marnie Campbell (yoga instructor;
manages Neve's fan club). Half Brother: Damian McDonald (mother: Marnie
Campbell; born 1982), Alex Campbell (father: Gerry Campbell; actor; born
1984). Claim to fame: as Julia Salinger on TV Series: Party of Five
(1994). Awards: Neve Campbell won the Best Female Performance in the
MTV Movie Awards 1998 from her appearance in SCREAM 2. Neve Campbell won
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Horror for SCREAM 2 in
1998 and MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for SCREAM 2 in 1998.
Agent: #102 2401 Cliff Street, Courtney B.C., Canada.
BIOGRAPHY Synopsis: Neve Campbell is “beautiful and accessible,” hardworking and talented, as are her peers, the young and fashionable Hollywood elite. But Campbell is oft cited for that extra something – believability. Time magazine named her, in 1995, TV’s Most Believable Teenager. Critics lauded her for “believable performances” in the horror parody Scream – and if you’re believable in Scream, you’re Believable. Born in Ontario, Canada, the daughter of a high school drama teacher and a yoga instructor, Campbell was six when first given ballet lessons. At nine she was accepted by the prestigious National Ballet of Canada, and spent five years with the company, studying many forms of dance, and performing such favorites as Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. At 14, the rigors of the art and the demands of a parochial ballet kingdom became too much and she gave it all up. Within months, however, Campbell was back dancing, as the youngest member of the Toronto cast of The Phantom of the Opera. Two years (1988/89) and 800 performances later the dancer briefly tried commercials and modeling, then moved to Canadian and American television: Kids in the Hall (1989), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1992), Catwalk (1992-93), Web of Deceit (1993), The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994), Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1994), I Know My Son Is Alive (1994), The Dark (1994), Baree (1994), and Paint Cans (1994). Immediately after acting upon advice that she move to Los Angeles, Campbell was cast as “scholarly rebel” Julie Salinger in the award-winning television series Party of Five (1994-2000), and never stopped working, filling her weekends with talk and comedy show appearances, and hiatus time with movie-making.
She
did Northern Passage (1995-direct to video), Mad TV (1995), Love Child (1995),
The Canterville Ghost (1996 – for a Family Film Award), and the hugely popular
Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3 (1996/97 and 2000). For the latter trilogy she
netted a Saturn Award, and MTV and Blockbuster nominations and awards, as well
as a Saturday Night Live hosting gig (1997). For The Craft (1996), Campbell
was awarded another series of MVT and Blockbuster awards, including Best
Female Performance. Between Screams Campbell filmed 54 (1998), Lion King II:
Simba’s Pride (1998-voice), Wild Things (1998), Three to Tango (1999), Panic
(2000), and Drowning Mona (2000). Away from the camera, Campbell is a yoga and
meditation enthusiast, and dances in her custom basement studio. She married
(1995) and divorced (1998) actor Jeffrey Colt, and has been linked
speculatively, by the press, to several leading men. She is one of a handful
in Hollywood who refuse roles that require nudity. She speaks for the Tourette
Syndrome Foundation on behalf of one brother. She and another brother,
Christian, and Matthew Lillard, all actors, have formed the Blue Sphere
Alliance Production Company at Los Angeles’ Lex Theater. The Canadian was one
of Six Bright Lights in American Network TV while in Party of Five, and has
been voted one of the “stars who bring the most money to box offices” by
theatre owners (she tied, at 11th, with Brad Pitt). Upcoming are roles in the
filmed and soon-to-be-released Hair Shirt/Red Shoes, and Investigating Sex.
Bright, beautiful and believable, Campbell will be a Hollywood fixture for
years to come. Believe it.
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